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Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1365-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1365-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
Research article
 | 
21 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 21 Sep 2016

A multi-stage 3-D stress field modelling approach exemplified in the Bavarian Molasse Basin

Moritz O. Ziegler, Oliver Heidbach, John Reinecker, Anna M. Przybycin, and Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

Data sets

World Stress Map Database Release 2016 O. Heidbach, M. Rajabi, K. Reiter, M. Ziegler, and the WSM Team https://doi.org/10.5880/WSM.2016.001

Spannungskarte Deutschland 2016 K. Reiter, O. Heidbach, B. Müller, J. Reinecker, and T. Röckl https://doi.org/10.5880/WSM.Germany2016

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Short summary
Subsurface engineering relies on sparsely distributed data points of the stress state of the earth's crust. 3D geomechanical--numerical modelling is applied to estimate the stress state in the entire volume of a large area. We present a multi-stage approach of differently sized models which provide the stress state in an area of interest derived from few and widely scattered data records. Furthermore we demonstrate the changes in reliability of the model depending on different input parameters.
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